[K12OSN] K12LTSP server for a student organisation

[Nils Breunese]

Robert Arkiletian wrote:

>> [ asking advice for hardware for an LTSP server for ~10 clients]
>>
>> Any recommendations for hardware? We are in The Netherlands, so if
>> anyone has any recommendations for hardware you can get here at
>> interesting prices, I'd be more than interested. I'm planning to do a
>> K12LTSP 6 install on an old borrowed 6-way (!) 450 MHz server with 2
>
> Even though it's 6 way it's probably not going to be much faster than
> the stand alone 450's. Although it sounds like a nice server (ram and
> disks) and it will probably be okay.

I know speed won't be comparable to a shiny new server, but the point  
is just to have demo/test system and then decide whether we want to  
go with an LTSP setup. This borrowed server is really a monster. It's  
huge and it makes a lot of noise when powered on. You can put in up  
to 4 power supplies in and it has 4 GB RAM. We'll only put in 2 GB  
for the test though, because it takes forever to memtest all that  
memory and you can't skip the memtest. :o(

>> GB RAM and a SCSI RAID array. I'm thinking that for a production
>> server we should probably get a fast dual-core processor and 1-2 GB
>> RAM? I guess SATA (probably RAID-1) should be fine? Currently
>> everything is on 100 MBit switches, I think we'll need a gigabyte
>
> For only 10 clients you don't need gigabit. Just make sure it's a
> switch not a hub.

Hm ok, thanks for the info. We already have two 100 Mbit switches  
although they're pretty low budget consumer models, so I'll use those  
for testing next weekend. So I wouldn't really need gigabit ethernet  
in the server either? We're looking for a cheap solution, so I'd love  
to not get anything we won't need.

Nils Breunese.
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